Example sentences of "he [was/were] first [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was First Commissioner in the Derby Governments of 1852 , 1858–9 and 1866–8 , and in his later years in Parliament he held various other government posts . |
| 2 | A former French translator for President Kim Il Sung , he was first secretary in the Congo at the time of his defection , and was welcomed by South Korea because of his position in the North Korean hierarchy . |
| 3 | Evans was arrested in August , 1990 , when he was First secretary at the London passport centre . |
| 4 | He was first choice at number two until the 2nd World War called a halt to fully competitive soccer — and well beyond . |
| 5 | From 1946 to 1952 he was first lecturer and then senior lecturer in the department of philosophy and psychology at the University of Canterbury , Christchurch , New Zealand , and was professor of philosophy there from 1952 to 1958 . |
| 6 | Thanks to the forceful leadership of Mountbatten when he was First Sea Lord , the Navy 's development of its limited war amphibious capability acquired a momentum of its own . |
| 7 | Davide would say , when he was first starting as a lawyer in Riba , on his return from America , and could speak up against the potlatch inclinations of his clients . |
| 8 | When he got on as a substitute against Sweden he was first class ; in Albania he was one of our best players . ’ |
| 9 | He would have been quite happy to have been employed as a production manager an or as an assistant director of which he was first class but the work did not come his way . |
| 10 | ‘ He was first rate ! ’ enthused Surkov , using the English adjective and thereby giving his compliment an ironic tinge . |
| 11 | Reynolds also appears as the central figure in Zoffany 's group portrait of all 36 founder members of the Royal Academy , of which he was first President . |